Working with the My Alerts display

Select Alerts from the Designer Studio developer toolbar to view lines from the current Alert log on the server node produced by your own requestor session. (You can access the same display from the My Alerts link of the Performance tool summary display.)

This display is limited to the current Alert log; alerts in older logs are not visible. Depending on your log file systems settings, a new log may start each time a node is started, at specific time each day, or on another basis.

My Alerts notification

During your requestor session, a pop-up message appears briefly when an alert is triggered.

To turn off the pop-up feature, select Preferences > View from the Designer Studio Profile menu and clear the Show Alerts Popup checkbox in the My Alerts group.

Working with the initial display

Field	Description
	The alerts are ordered by date and time; the first row is the most current. Click to see the details of one row. Click to hide details. For an explanation of the most useful details, see Understanding Alerts. For detailed information about every field reported by each alert type, consult the Alert Log 5.4, a PDF document available on the PDN.
Date and Time	Date and time of the alert, converted from GMT to the time zone of the server.
Alert Type	A text description of the alert type. For example, the text `BrowserInteraction` corresponds to alert type PEGA0001, interaction times. Other types are `Database` (`PEGA002` to `PEGA007`) .
Value	The measured value of the Key Performance Indicator, recorded in seconds, as a count, or in bytes.
Interaction	The sequence number of the browser-to-server interaction since the requestor session began, as indicated by the Performance tool display.
Workpool	Work pool that the requestor is using, or `none`.
Last Input	A portion of the URL received in the most recent interaction. Typically the text Stream= or Activity= and the name of an activity or stream rule run by the URL.
First Activity	For alerts from interactive requestors, the first activity or stream run by this requestor in the current interaction. (This activity or stream may or may not have caused the alert.)

Options

If more than 20 alerts meet the criteria, the oldest 20 appear.

Click a numbered link 1, 2, 3, or next> to see an earlier or earlier page of up to 20 alerts.
Click This Session Only to limit the display to alerts produced by your current requestor session.
Click All My Sessions to include alerts from the current session and other sessions with your current Operator ID.
Click Performance or Security to toggle the display between security-related alerts (SECnnnn) and performance-related events (PEGAnnnn).
Click the Options link to view or set log filtering criteria. Click Apply to review the log again with updated filter criteria.

Field	Description
Lines per page	Enter an integer between 1 and 200 to change the number presented per page.
Number of pages presented	Set a maximum number of pages to present as numbered links, between 2 and 20.
Filter by	Optional. Enter a text string to limit the display to only alert lines containing an exact match anywhere within the line. Leave blank for no filtering. Case is not significant. For example, enter [email protected] to find lines containing this value, or containing [email protected].

	Alert log, key performance indicator
	Understanding alerts How to monitor interactive response times.

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